Re: recommendation on DHCP6 source port numbers

Alan DeKok <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dhc
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> On Feb 29, 2024, at 11:32 AM, Robert Nagy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +1 to David’s suggestion. I as well have never found this ambiguous but I do see why people might. IMNHO we dictate the service ports things are sent to (hence listen on) whereas what clients and servers use for source ports is open to implementation  

  I am a strong believer in laying things out explicitly.  If there is confusion on this list, I hate to think what the average implementor is going through.

  Implementation-defined behaviour in core protocols should be strongly discouraged.

  Alan DeKok.

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